Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1985
"Those were the best days of my life — some of sixty-nine."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"Those were the best days of my life — some of sixty-nine."
What's actually sung
"Those were the best days of my life — summer of sixty-nine." Summer of '69 — Bryan Adams (1985)
Why the ear defaults
Live-crowd recordings show the "some of" reading appearing consistently in sing-along. The M in "summer" smears into the following vowel.
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